Jacalitos Creek (Miocene to of the United States)

Where: Fresno County, California (36.1° N, 120.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 117.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Etchegoin Formation, Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: U. S. Grant and L. G. Hertlein. 1938. The West American Cenozoic Echinoidea. Publications of the University of California at Los Angeles in Mathematical and Physical Sciences 2:1-225 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203539: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Laganidae
"Merriamaster coalingaensis" = Sismondia coalingaensis
"Merriamaster coalingaensis" = Sismondia coalingaensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sand dollar
 Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae
Astrodapsis peltoides Anderson and Martin 1914 sand dollar